Facebook said on Friday it had blocked Russian state media from making money on its platform as Moscow’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine reached the streets of the capital Kiev.
“We now prohibit Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on our platform anywhere in the world,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security policy, said on Twitter, adding that the move was on the verge. to be implemented.
Facebook’s parent company Meta said earlier on Friday that Russia had decided to “limit access” and “slow down” Facebook’s operation. Moscow accuses the American social network of censoring Russian media and violating human rights and Russian citizens.
“Yesterday, Russian authorities ordered us to halt fact-checking and reporting of content posted by four Russian state-controlled media outlets,” Meta Vice President Nick Clegg wrote in a statement. “We refused. As a result, they announced that they would restrict access to our services”.
The invasion of Ukraine was the occasion for an outbreak of fake news on the internet, in particular on social networks, a phenomenon that has become recurrent with each outbreak of war or conflict.